Verb grammar

Question 1

What are the English present tenses? (Use see)

Answer 1

Simple present (I see)
Present progressive (I am seeing)
Present emphatic (I do see)

Question 2

Personal endings

Answer 2

Singular Plura
1st -ō, -m I 1st -mus We
2nd -s you 2nd -tis You
3rd -t he/she/it 3rd -nt They

Question 3

Name the conjugations and their thematic vowels

Answer 3

1st “ā”
2nd “ē”
3rd “e”
4th “i”

Question 4

How is the present stem formed for first and second conjugation verbs?

Answer 4

Drop “re”

Question 5

What do nouns that end in -a in the singular end with in the plural?

Answer 5

They end with -ae

E.g. Nauta, nautae

Question 6

When the nominative singular of a noun ends in -a, what do the genitive singular and plural end with?

Answer 6

-ae
-ārum
e.g. nautae, nautārum - of the sailor, of the sailors
Note that the genitive singular and the nominative plural have the same ending

Question 7

When the nominative singular of a noun ends in -a, what do the accusative singular and plural end with?

Answer 7

• am

- ās

Question 8

When the nominative singular of a noun ends in -a, what do the dative singular and plural end with?

Answer 8

• ae

- īs

Question 9

What three cases end in -ae?

Answer 9

Genitive singular; dative singular; nominative plural